Monday, 19 September 2011

Wet & Wild

Over on UKScrappers last week there was a fun challenge to use an advertising slogan as your title - and of course my mind went totally blank!!! I get this when I answer surveys too - no matter how hard I think, I can neither recall the product when told the slogan, nor remember the slogan when faced with the product. Yet while I'm watching the advert I'm usually irritated because I've seen/heard the combination so many times. Marketing budgets are wasted on my butterfly brain!

Thankfully Google pointed me in the right direction and I eventually found a 7-up slogan from 1965/66 that fitted these rainy pictures from last July (please note the typical British summer holiday weather) when we visited Hadrian's Wall at Housesteads Fort. I've used my September Counterfeit Kit along with a sketch from Sarah's Cards.

The rain allowed us to imagine how much the Roman troops must have missed
the Italian sunshine - we could have done with some ourselves!!

I think No.3 Child is responsible for getting rain droplets onto the camera lens and chopping off my feet ... don't we all look like we're having a grrrrreat time .... aha, now that reminds me of a slogan I can link to the product - Tony the Tiger and his Frosties!

I also visited Housesteads in August 2009 - it poured then too!! One day I'd like to walk the length of Hadrian's Wall, but given my track record, I'd better invest in some decent waterproofs first!

P.S. As I love combining challenges, this page also fits in with Scrapbookers Anonymous' "B" challenge as I've used Basic Grey paper and Buttons!

LOL, you don't have a lot of luck with Hadrian's Wall weatherwise, do you ? I was there one August and whilst it didn't rain, it was slightly misty and grey. Could be, it is one part of the country never to have good weather.

Did you go to the temple of Mithras just south of Hadrian's Wall? It's in a sheep field and my kids have only just forgiven the friends who sent us to look at it... especially since you can see it online without tramping through muddy fields in the rain.

But it gives you a feeling of why they'd build a temple to a sun god :)